Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum)

Member profile

Mr. Alhassan Sesay

Organization: Sierra Leone School Green Club (SLSGC)
Country: Sierra Leone
I am working on:

Community Based Organization (CBO) which was established in 2015. The organization has been engaged in climate change sensitization and mitigation strategy across Sierra Leone. The organization began as the challenges of climate change hits local communities in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone is one of the poorest countries in the world and climate change is having a drastic impact on the livelihood of the already underprivileged communities.
Sierra Leone School Green Club has been successful in achieving grassroots participation in Climate Change resilience strategies. It has also succeeded in influencing public opinion about climate change in communities.
Our audience includes educational institutions, local government structures and non-governmental organizations and local communities that are directly or indirectly been affected by climate change.
We hope to have a common agenda in the fight against climate change and make the world or our communities sustainable in the utilization of our natural resources in an environmental friendly way so that development can reach the least man in society.
We are also working on agriculture for youth, an ideation call cassava-nol for the reduction of carbon emission in working with women and youth.

This member contributed to:

    • We have been in agribusiness in Sierra Leone for over three years in which we grow vegetable, groundnut, Moringa etc. and we are still facing challenges. Low yield of harvest because of limited resources to expand our farming system.

      The challenges we are facing as youth in Africa involve in agriculture are numerous and some of them are:

      • Access to loan
      • Capacity building on agriculture related programs
      • Trust from people you are working with
      • Access to information on risk management

      Alhassan Sesay